My baby druid is at 32, and he's had a talent point just sitting there for the past level and a half, because I can't decide what to put it in. :(

Right now, he's a kitty, so I grabbed the speed buff (naturally), and furor (naturally). Next tier, Fury Swipes and Feral Aggression. Finally Feral charge.

Now... meh?

Besides Leader of the Pack, there isn't really anything I care about for a while. :( Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of great talents I can nab. The problem is that they're irrelevant right now--I do so much damage that nearly everything is dead in a rake, a mangle or two and ferocious bite. Don't need more CP from crits, because FB is mostly overkill as it is. Don't need more armor, because everything is dead long before I am. I'm not ravaging anything, I never have to heal after fights, no need for infected wounds, I never even use Tiger's Fury or Skull Bash--just no need.

:/

So I'm thinking of maybe going boomkin instead--just to make leveling more exciting. I have the set of SP heirlooms as well, after all. And there are fun toys at each tier. :P And by toys I mean "things that'll be fun to use even though I kill stuff just as fast LOL"

Of course, I'll lose my speed buff whenever I'm inside. :(

Decisions, decisions.

Things might be more interesting when I hit 36 and can start tanking dungeons (due to getting Swipe, finally). But for now...

This thread doesn't have a point, actually. I'm just avoiding work.

So I'll give it one! Why does Balance get all the fun toys?!?!?! What is up with that!?!?!

Don't hold your breath for level 36. I hear Druid tanking sucks until 66 where you finally get Lacerate. Until then it's Mangle, Swipe and Maul, all on cooldowns. And that's for single target fights as well.

If you stick to the Feral tree, get the Primal Fury and/or Leader of the Pack buffs. +5% crit, self-healing without changing and double combo points on crits are sweet abilities to have, especially if you do some dungeons.

Or you can go Boomkin, but I found it to be equally mind-numbing. Moonfire, Starsurge, Wrath, loot. Repeat ad nauseam.

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I'm starting a new druid myself. Decided that paying to server-transfer and faction-change wasn't worth it, and for the same amount of money I could just level a character to the cap, and get to see what's changed on the horde side as a bonus.

Anyway it's going to be resto with a boomkin offspec. My love of feral has diminished as of late. Also typhooning someone back under a solarbeam sounds like fun, the redesigned thorns is good stuff too.

Level up in Battlegrounds then and whenever you come across a Frost Mage, pretend that you can't shift out of their roots.

lol

Unfortunately, ALL the mages are Frost mages while leveling. Just too much good there not to, unless you REALLY love fire.

Luckily, I've sworn off BGs for a while. I hope that the 40-49 bracket will finally have some semblance of balance in it--that's when I'll try again. As long as I'm not getting frickin' 1-3 shotted, I'm willing to try.

Though I can tell that feral PvP just isn't for me. I don't like feeling constrained by energy, and I am hardcore missing my DK's utility spells. Strangulate+Chains of Ice+Mind Freeze, why did you leave me? T.T

And having NO ranged options just isn't fun after you get used to playing a Mage/DK, lol.

If I didn't edit, people would never read my posts. They'd be full of bad grammar with like 5 extra meaningless posts after them. Let's just say I delete a lot of the extra "edited on" lines. If I didn't edit my posts would look like this:

Lol, the grammar ***** on Allah (like me) stop once your post is legible. L337 speakers are the ones that need to die. And high school left me with a fear of commas and "but." :P

In other news, I'm enjoying boomkin. But still suffering from some of the "useless talent" issues. Because my Starsurge crits for 1.2k... I can kill an elite in just a few casts. >.<

But the spec at least has built in variety. With my kitty, it was always Rake>Mangle>Ferocious Bite (well, maybe 2 mangles... maybe).

But with my boomkin, I'll sometimes be using Wrath, sometimes Starfire. Whenever I enter an eclipse state, especially Solar, I grab a bunch of enemies with Insect Swarm (or MF) and let Thorns destroy them as I laugh maniacally. :D

It also taxes my brain SLIGHTLY more by making me calculate my power in reference to my spells.

Crap, I thought this was the Bored Druid thread. I'm not really seeing straight right now. Had some after work brews. And some evening brews. Just finished off with some late night brews, to be honest.

I'm going to bed. Stop derailing stuff, Brisin, god!

Woops, typo.

Edited, Mar 3rd 2011 3:47am by Mazra

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It makes sense. MM's mastery is pretty weak. A % chance for an extra auto-attack? :/ All kinds of lame. Apparently, mastery is only making up like 10% of their damage.

Which isn't horrible, per se. But it's worse than everything else. By buffing your Agi, you make everything stronger (including WQ shots). By buffing crit, you make everything stronger (including WQ shots). By buffing haste, you make many things stronger (and get more WQ shots). By buffing mastery you... get 1.5% more WQ shots per point.

Why wouldn't you just buff crit by 1%, considering it affects everything? :/

I can only assume, since Survival's mastery doesn't have a strong bonus (1% per point), that things like crit and hit are beating it because they just apply to more of the damage. If the bonus was higher, they might like it more.

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Actually I think it does make sense.

Hit is more important, as the bulk of their damage comes from an ability with a 6 sec CD. Plus, they use shots that need to connect to restore their focus, so they can use more.

Crit takes 179.28 rating to get 1%. Mastery takes the same.

So that 1% to crit buffs all their damage by 1%. The 1% to mastery would only buff some of their damage.

Haste wouldn't be as good, but it only takes 128.x rating for 1%, so you get more bang for the buck to make up for the difference.

So the problem is that Wild Quiver sucks and Essence of the Viper doesn't buff by enough per point.